Marumaru Atua

Marumaru Atua

Good to see our vaka has arrived safely in Suva this morning.
The crew have a busy week ahead. This evening there was a welcome Kava Ceremony, and they are being hosted this evening to dinner by IUCN. This week the main events are training the crew at the...

Kia Orana and Talofa from all of us here on Marumaru Atua.
We would like to say a big meitaki Maata to the people of Samoa for their warm hospitality. We sighted Samoa early Tuesday morning and didn't arrive till late evening, we had a lovely scenic tour of the island...

Kia Orana Tatou…
Marumaru Atua is now at Vuda Point, Fiji, joined by our friends on Fiji’s Uto Ni Yalo, as well as the vaka Hine Moana. Since saying goodbye to Watch Captain and resident blogger Alex in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, we have also bid farewell to many of our dear...

July 16th, 2012
Marumaru Atua at the 11th Pacific Arts Festival
Kia Orana Tatou...
I have been thinking about what I can say about the arts festival....How I can best describe this event in one word if I had to...a word that would accurately depict the experiences we've had, and the feelings we...

August 1, 2012
Not long after our previous blog last Sunday, the captains of the fleet jointly decided it would be best for the vakas to go directly to Luganville again on Espiritu Santos island to take refuge from the weather and await the winds to turn in our favour. Because...

July 21, 2012
Kia Orana Tatou!
After spending a quiet few days in Wanderers Bay taking refuge from the impassable squalls, the weather finally lifted enough on Monday morning for us to make a dash for it towards Rennell Island (about 130 miles away) to meet up with the rest of the...

There is a feeling that we call ‘chicken skin’ in Hawai’i. It can be generated in the human body from a variety of situations…. perhaps a story of spirit, of uncanny synchrony, or, in this case, presentations by the Pacific Voyagers. Something has made these presentations, in a humble hale...

Kia Orana Tatou Katoatoa,
Part I - the voyage here and our arrival...
It has taken us a few extra days to get here and it's been a mixed bag of weather that has been thrown at us on this leg too. Squally conditions to begin with for the first few days,...

Kia Orana Tatou!
Port Vila was alot of fun! It turned out that we had arrived exactly at the right time to catch an annual music festival (every 21st June) held on the waterfront and around the town area. It was organised really well, night markets in one area, food selling...